It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, alrea...
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Because it often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days...
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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